Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli née Antonaz 28 November 1941 22 June 2015 was an Italian film actress who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991 and she is best known for the movie Malizia Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola Kingdom of Italy in Croatian Pula former capital of Istria After the war her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples where her father found work as a hospital administrator Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics but as a teenager she became proficient at gymnastics In an interview for The New York Times she recalled My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens They felt I was ugly clumsy insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace I became very good especially in rhythmical gym which is a kind of dance Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics she graduated as a gymnastics instructor She moved to Rome where she became a secondaryschool gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry who helped her find modelling jobs Antonellis earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for CocaCola In 1965 she made her first featurefilm appearance in Le sedicenni although her performance went uncredited Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs Other roles followed her breakthrough came in 1973s Malizia She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us PartMio Dio come sono caduta in basso She worked in more serious films as well including Luchino Viscontis last film The Innocent 1976 In Wifemistress a romance film of 1977 she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening Later she appeared in Passione dAmore 1981 From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series Antonellis final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 1991 following which she retired She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award Nastro dArgento in 1974 for Malizia Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced From 1972 to 1980 she was the companion of actor JeanPaul Belmondo On 27 April 1991 cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonellis home She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest She spent ten years appealing the conviction which was eventually overturned In 2006 the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108000 euros Antonelli died on 22 June 2015 aged 73 from a heart attack Source Article Laura Antonelli from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30